If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.